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At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.
We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:
- Honesty
- Reliability
- Curiosity
- Collaboration
- Passion
About the role and what you'll be doing:
As a Lead Application Modernization Consultant at Ensono, you will lead an agile delivery team or a significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes, delivery quality, and the developer experience. You will remain hands-on across architecture, design, and development while ensuring solutions achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients.
You will strengthen the Connected Services competency by advancing standards, documentation, and reusable modernization patterns, and by supporting discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities as needed.
You will also coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices, including the responsible use of AI assistants and agents, while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe environment that prioritizes intent, quality, accountability, and learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes and the developer experience while ensuring solutions deliver measurable business outcomes for clients.
- Own technical and delivery risk within your scope, proactively identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks related to legacy dependencies, migration patterns, new technologies, and AI-assisted approaches.
- Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development while overseeing multiple work packages and ensuring solutions align with agreed architectures, engineering standards, and Ensono best practices.
- Drive application modernization efforts by assessing legacy codebases, building application and capability inventories, and recommending appropriate dispositions, including rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
- Develop assessments and target-state designs that provide clients with a clear, credible path from legacy environments to modernized solutions.
- Lead discovery and planning activities with clients to define problem statements, desired business outcomes, success criteria, technical constraints, and delivery priorities.
- Champion spec-driven development by clearly documenting requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, architecture decision records (ADRs), and acceptance criteria.
- Promote a modern developer experience, including the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate legacy analysis and improve productivity, quality, and feedback cycles.
- Maintain strong engineering judgment and accountability while ensuring key architectural and delivery decisions are transparent and well documented.
- Provide technical leadership within the Connected Services competency, setting clear expectations for engineering quality, delivery, and developer experience.
What You Will Need:
- 7+ years of progressive software engineering, application development, or related experience, including 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership.
- Demonstrated experience leading modernization of large-scale, complex, high-availability applications, including cloud-native and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Java, .NET, or Python, with the ability to analyze and reason through legacy codebases.
- Experience assessing legacy application estates, developing application inventories, and recommending modernization strategies such as rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
- Experience leading solution design and translating business requirements into technical architectures, specifications, ADRs, acceptance criteria, and executable delivery plans.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, availability, performance, and other non-functional requirements.
- Experience establishing engineering standards and quality practices, including automation, testing, documentation, quality gates, and reusable development patterns.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and managing technical, architectural, and delivery risks across the software development lifecycle.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support code analysis, development, testing, documentation, or modernization while maintaining engineering oversight and accountability.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers while maintaining accountability for quality and delivery.
- Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to provide clear technical direction, explain architectural decisions, and align teams around desired outcomes.
- Proven ownership of technical outcomes, including clear documentation, continuous improvement, and development of reusable engineering assets.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience supporting application modernization discovery, assessments, solutioning, or pre-sales activities.
- Experience creating reusable engineering assets, standards, reference architectures, documentation, or modernization patterns across multiple engagements.
- Experience supporting technical interviews, engineering assessments, or broader capability-building initiatives.
- Experience working with AI-assisted development tools or agents in enterprise software engineering environments.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Why Ensono?
Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $125,000 to $168,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.
Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP's pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP's website.
If you need accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email USTalentAcquisition@ensono.com.
Lead Application Modernization Consultant
At Ensono, our Purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.
We can Do Great Things because we have great Associates. The Ensono Core Values unify our diverse talents and are woven into how we do business. These five traits are the key to achieving our purpose:
- Honesty
- Reliability
- Curiosity
- Collaboration
- Passion
About the role and what you'll be doing:
As a Lead Application Modernization Consultant at Ensono, you will lead an agile delivery team or a significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes, delivery quality, and the developer experience. You will remain hands-on across architecture, design, and development while ensuring solutions achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients.
You will strengthen the Connected Services competency by advancing standards, documentation, and reusable modernization patterns, and by supporting discovery, assessments, and pre-sales activities as needed.
You will also coach and mentor engineers in modern development practices, including the responsible use of AI assistants and agents, while fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe environment that prioritizes intent, quality, accountability, and learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead an agile delivery team or significant workstream within a larger program, owning technical outcomes and the developer experience while ensuring solutions deliver measurable business outcomes for clients.
- Own technical and delivery risk within your scope, proactively identifying, tracking, and mitigating risks related to legacy dependencies, migration patterns, new technologies, and AI-assisted approaches.
- Remain hands-on in architecture, design, and development while overseeing multiple work packages and ensuring solutions align with agreed architectures, engineering standards, and Ensono best practices.
- Drive application modernization efforts by assessing legacy codebases, building application and capability inventories, and recommending appropriate dispositions, including rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
- Develop assessments and target-state designs that provide clients with a clear, credible path from legacy environments to modernized solutions.
- Lead discovery and planning activities with clients to define problem statements, desired business outcomes, success criteria, technical constraints, and delivery priorities.
- Champion spec-driven development by clearly documenting requirements, architectural intent, non-functional expectations, architecture decision records (ADRs), and acceptance criteria.
- Promote a modern developer experience, including the effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools to accelerate legacy analysis and improve productivity, quality, and feedback cycles.
- Maintain strong engineering judgment and accountability while ensuring key architectural and delivery decisions are transparent and well documented.
- Provide technical leadership within the Connected Services competency, setting clear expectations for engineering quality, delivery, and developer experience.
What You Will Need:
- 7+ years of progressive software engineering, application development, or related experience, including 3+ years in application modernization, cloud architecture, or technical delivery leadership.
- Demonstrated experience leading modernization of large-scale, complex, high-availability applications, including cloud-native and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language, such as Java, .NET, or Python, with the ability to analyze and reason through legacy codebases.
- Experience assessing legacy application estates, developing application inventories, and recommending modernization strategies such as rehost, refactor, re-platform, retire, retain, or replace.
- Experience leading solution design and translating business requirements into technical architectures, specifications, ADRs, acceptance criteria, and executable delivery plans.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP, including architectural trade-offs, scalability, availability, performance, and other non-functional requirements.
- Experience establishing engineering standards and quality practices, including automation, testing, documentation, quality gates, and reusable development patterns.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and managing technical, architectural, and delivery risks across the software development lifecycle.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to support code analysis, development, testing, documentation, or modernization while maintaining engineering oversight and accountability.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers while maintaining accountability for quality and delivery.
- Strong client-facing communication skills with the ability to provide clear technical direction, explain architectural decisions, and align teams around desired outcomes.
- Proven ownership of technical outcomes, including clear documentation, continuous improvement, and development of reusable engineering assets.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience supporting application modernization discovery, assessments, solutioning, or pre-sales activities.
- Experience creating reusable engineering assets, standards, reference architectures, documentation, or modernization patterns across multiple engagements.
- Experience supporting technical interviews, engineering assessments, or broader capability-building initiatives.
- Experience working with AI-assisted development tools or agents in enterprise software engineering environments.
- Relevant cloud or architecture certifications from Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Why Ensono?
Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career. You can do great things through innovation or collaboration, by learning or volunteering, or to promote diversity and inclusion. You can do great things for your own health or for a healthier planet. Whatever it means to you to do great things we want Ensono to be the place you can do it.
We are a client-facing business, but we do encourage clients to allow us to work remotely most of the time so if you are not required to be on a client site, you can choose to work from home or in our Ensono offices.
Some of our benefits include:
- Unlimited Paid Days Off
- Three health plan options
- 401k with company match
- Eligibility for dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D coverage, and flexible spending accounts
- Family Forming Benefit including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy reimbursement
- Paid childbearing and paternal leave
- Education Reimbursement, Student Loan Assistance or 529 College Funding
- Sabbatical leave
- Wellness program
- Flexible work schedule
As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the current pay scale for this role is $125,000 to $168,000 annually based on a full-time schedule. Please note that placement in the range may vary based on numerous factors including but not limited to skills, experience, internal equity, and business needs. In addition to base salary, other compensation programs, depending on eligibility, include an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, and an equity grant under our Associate Equity Appreciation Program.
Ensono is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment to our Associates and building a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Pay transparency nondiscrimination statement/posting OFCCP's pay transparency policy can be found on OFCCP's website.
If you need accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email USTalentAcquisition@ensono.com.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Application Consultant
Translate your credentials into PERM language
PERM requires your employer to define the minimum requirements for the role before advertising it. Review your degree transcripts and job history now so your actual qualifications align with what the employer will certify to DOL, not what you wish they were.
Target employers with established immigration programs
Application Consultant roles appear across ERP, healthcare IT, and SaaS implementation firms. Prioritize employers who have sponsored PERM cases before, since they already have immigration counsel engaged and understand the multi-year timeline involved.
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Filter Application Consultant openings by green card sponsorship on Migrate Mate to surface employers actively filing EB-2 and EB-3 petitions for this role, rather than cold-applying and asking about sponsorship mid-process.
Confirm the prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your job zone and location. Run a search on OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code for Application Consultant work before you negotiate compensation, so no surprises arise at the LCA stage.
Understand EB-3 vs EB-2 for your actual background
EB-3 covers professionals with a bachelor's degree; EB-2 requires an advanced degree or equivalent. If your Application Consultant role doesn't mandate a master's, your employer will likely file EB-3, which affects your priority date timeline depending on your country of birth.
Ask about concurrent filing eligibility at the offer stage
If your priority date is current, USCIS allows concurrent I-140 and I-485 filing, which can significantly compress the path to a green card. Raise this with the employer's immigration counsel before signing an offer letter, not months into the process.
Green Card Application Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Application Consultant roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Application Consultant positions qualify under EB-3 as professional roles requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field. EB-2 applies when the role requires an advanced degree or your employer can document that your specialized credentials meet that higher threshold. The specific SOC code your employer assigns during the PERM process determines which category is filed.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B is a temporary status requiring renewal every three years, is subject to the annual lottery, and doesn't lead to permanent residency on its own. PERM-based green card sponsorship permanently ties employment authorization to a specific employer during the process but results in lawful permanent residency. There's no annual cap at the EB-3 category level for most countries, though per-country backlogs can extend timelines for nationals from India and China.
How long does the PERM process take for an Application Consultant position?
DOL analyst review for PERM labor certification is currently running between one and two years. After certification, your employer files the I-140 petition with USCIS, which adds several months under standard processing. Adjustment of status or consular processing follows once your priority date becomes current. Total timelines vary significantly by country of birth, with nationals from most countries outside India and China often seeing a faster path to a final green card.
What should I look for when evaluating employers for green card sponsorship as an Application Consultant?
Look for employers who already have immigration counsel and a documented history of PERM filings for technical roles. During interviews, ask directly whether the company sponsors permanent residency, not just H-1B, and whether they cover legal and filing fees. Use Migrate Mate to find Application Consultant openings from employers who have actively sponsored green card cases, which removes the guesswork from your job search.
Can my employer start the PERM process while I'm on H-1B status?
Yes, and many employers start PERM early specifically to build priority date history while you remain on H-1B. Filing PERM doesn't affect your H-1B status, and having an approved I-140 before your sixth H-1B year lets you extend H-1B status in one-year increments beyond the standard six-year cap under AC21 rules. Raising this timeline with your employer before your fifth H-1B year avoids a gap in work authorization.